Comprehension

For ages, the Church and the Empire have opposed each other; for ages, the Inquisition and the Office have played one against the other—two of the world’s most terrible and merciless special services of Tanрh, framing and killing each other’s agents, discrediting them. But it happened that the old enmity had to be forgotten—forgotten simply to survive. Forgotten because the Three had already been born: three great black magicians, summoned in full measure to repay the descendants of the murderers for the genocide of the people of Zenn-ann-v’innal, the people of Darkness—who had never learned and never wished to wage war, who never knew violence, and who were completely wiped out because of people.